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Unpaid internships at charities are about more than money | Daniel Breslinhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/aug/07/unpaid-internships-charity-money
The internship debate focuses too much on pay. We should be more concerned by the quality of experience available<p>With volunteer interns becoming an inescapable fixture of many offices, a consensus has emerged around the need to offer an intern wage – with increasing focus on those organisations that fail to do so. A recent Guardian poll found just over 60% of respondents believed charities <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/voluntary-sector-network/poll/2011/jul/01/major-charities-unpaid-internships?INTCMP=SRCH" title="Guardian: Poll: Should major charities offer unpaid internships?">shouldn't offer unpaid internships</a>, while Tanya de Grunwald, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/jun/28/charities-unpaid-interns-graduates" title="Guardian: Are charities' unpaid interns really 'volunteers'?">writing for Cif</a>, criticised major unnamed charities for offering these internships.</p><p>Having been a volunteer intern for a leading UK charity, and now a paid intern for another, I am familiar with internships in the third sector. I fully support those campaigning for an intern wage and I do not wish to see unpaid internships continue among for-profit companies. However, volunteer charity internships are distinctly different, and I am one of a growing number who have benefitted from them.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/aug/07/unpaid-internships-charity-money">Continue reading...</a>Voluntary sectorVolunteeringSocietyCharitiesGraduate careersWork & careersMoneyGraduateGuardian CareersInternshipsJobsSun, 07 Aug 2011 09:00:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/aug/07/unpaid-internships-charity-moneyPhotograph: Ryanstock/Taxi/GettyMany interns use their experience to find paid employment. Photograph: Ryanstock/Taxi/GettyPhotograph: Ryanstock/Taxi/GettyMany interns use their experience to find paid employment. Photograph: Ryanstock/Taxi/GettyDaniel Breslin2011-08-07T09:00:00Z